Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server

Gaurav Banga and Peter Druschel

Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Houston, TX  77005

 
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Dynamics of an HTTP server
• Problems in Generating Synthetic HTTP requests
  • Inability to Generate Excess Load
  • Additional Problems
• A Scalable Method for Generating HTTP Requests
  • Basic Architecture
  • S-Clients
  • Request Generating Capacity of a Client Machine
  • Think Time Distributions
• Quantitative Evaluation
  • Experimental Setup
  • Request generation rate
  • Overload Behavior of a Web Server
  • Throughput under Bursty Conditions
• Related Work
• Conclusion
• References